The clarion., 1887-04-13

o.ie - AosOVV, anu many entirely destitute
OF church privileges No wonder the
police OF Chicago arrest in one year ,20'l
bows and girls for petty crimes. What q
mercy, that these poor people have not
been subjected, Tor three-quarters of a CEN
Jury. TO the demoralizing "eurse of slav-
erv."
lnidelity never reached the first stage OF
lis termination in the Old South. The
crowded houses which surge around Robt.
u lngersoll, from Maine to Kansas, fur
nish their own comment.
We would be distinctly understood as
offering none of these statements in defense
OF the moral right of sle very, or as regret
ting Its abolition neither would we de-
sire TO draw any damaging, or invidious
comparisons or contrasts between the
Northern and Southern citizens of this, our
common country. We are simply stating
the facts of history in rebuttal of Prof
lilletts unjust and unwarranted charges.
The Southern people are addressing them
selves TO living Issues with no disposition
TO revive dead ones, except when their an
tecedents are assailed, within their own
borders, by the teachers OF their chill
dren.
Now as to this intellectual inferiority o
the Old South, the memory OF which sc
Wrings the compassionate soul of the amia-
bic Professor. He makes the fatal admis
sion that "before the war the South hac
more boys In college than the North" bul
begs the question by pleading that ''they
only went 10 school because ii was the
thing to do" A grave charge against the
Southern youth, on which We challenge
him to the proof. Here is the quality
the sum ana substance of his testimony
He de oses that ''of ali the books writer
by American authors, ninety per cent
come from north of Mason and Dixon's
line" and then asks ''what is the answer
to this descred,tdbte fact g'' slavery" he
| reiterates, 1.-The curse of slavery with 1T
slothfui and enervating influences, rested
like an incubus upon the intellect of ths
white man OF the South Very we'll. W,
concede that The North has written nearly
| all the works of fiction, ninety per cent. o
which are worthless and se-enty five pei
cent. are actually pernicious. She has
| furnished a great many passaoly gooC
school books, little valuable history anc
a great deal of doubtful accuracy anS
questionable value. We admit all this
| and more. We credit her with standard
scientific and theological productions, O
which the South has been among her mos
appreeiative students, feeling and acknowl
edglng a common pride in the merits anC
reputation of her authors. And We
We announce only what is susceptible O
| demonstration, when we unhesItatingl,
declare that for more than one hundred
years, the grand march of the American
intellect has been projected from Southern
| rains. From the early days of the Col
onies, two columns of physical and idea
| forces have moved steadily from east t,
west across the continent, divided mainl,
| by the 38th or 39th line of latitude
each animated by respective and pc
culiar Inspirations, and each complementa
10 the other. In the Northern division
we have ever found a sleepless, restless
ceaseless struggle for sectional, local anC
| individual supremacy, marked at ever,
| step by the fierce conflict between the vic
| TINS OF want and the despotism of capita
"a stern and native practically born of in
| dlgenous necessity; while along the
| parallels of the "Old South has rolled the
deep and majestic tide of national thought
national sentiment and national action.
The South has been the land of "enter
prises of great pith aud moment" rather
than the nursery of scribblers. She ha.
made history for others to write and sell
Sne has carved with the sword the path
way OI TIE pen anu maze America the
stronghold of the Anglo-Saxon race. The
first resolutions declaring the right of the
colonies to be ''free and Independent" were
introduced into Southern Legislature by
a Southern man. The first resolutions to
the same effect were presented in the
Colonial Congress by another Southern
man, and took form and consistence, in
the Declaration of Independence, under
/ m maf0 of afI har
Southern man. A Southern man led
the patriot armies to victory and
established the possibilities of the proud
est nation on the earth. A Southern
man was prime mover of the Conven-
ton that framed the Constitution.
When the Government had been created.
it's organic law was still an unexplained
book, ponderous oar in unskilled hands.
1t was left for the greatest legal mind of
the age. a Southern Chief Just ce, to
analyze and st mp upon 1t the construc-
tion which will be accepted as long as the
Constitution is respected. A Southern
man framed the Ordinance for the organi-
cation and government of the great North
western Territory an instrument second
in Importance only to the Constitution of
the United States. A Southern man was
the author of the Republican theory of
popular government which prevailed dur
ing the sixty years OF our greatest pros
perity, peace and happiness. OF the Is
presidents of the Continental Congress. 8
were from slave States. From 1889 to
1858, a period of "a years, embracing
eleven ADMINISTRATORS, the slave States
furnished eight Presidents, whose terms of
service covered tifty=two years. During
the same time the free States furnished
three Presidents, whose combined terms
covered twelve years. OF twelve Vice
Presidents, four were from slave States.
Under these eleven Administrations. the
slave States supplied fourteen Secretaries
of State, eleven Secretaries of War. six
Secretaries of the Treasury, nine Secreta.
ries of the Navy, and eight Postmaster
Generals. OF fifty-five Presidents, pro
tenn, of the Senate, thirty nine were from
slave States. OF thirty .one Speakers of the
House, twenty two were from slave States
Ot five Chief j Justices, two, and the only
two of great eminence, were from slave
States. OF twenty mine Associate Justices.
seventeen were from slave States of twen
ty-one Attorney Generals, fourteen were
from slave States; of one hundred and
eighty-five Public Ministers to foreign
countries, ninety-nine were from slave
States. Without going further into ex-
haQsiive details, Tor which material is
abundant and overwhelming, we affirm,
without fear of decent denial, that along
the lines OF these fifty-two years. are
ranged all the broad and lofty conceptions
of craftsmanship, all the bold and fruitful
enterprises, all the grand and comprehen-
sive achievements from which have evolved
the pride, the power and the glory OF the
American people.
The war of 1912 was scarcely less i'm
portant In its results than the war of indie
pendence. The one left us an embryonic
Nation; the other developed full grown
Power, wiping out the insults of twenty
five years, planting our flag upon the
ocean and dissolving every doubt in the
minds of foreign powers that we were
de facto, and entitled to
place in the front rank of nations. This
war, we are told by a northern historian.
"was Southern meas ure for the protec-
tion OF Northern interests )" yet it was in
and pressed to triumphant
issue under the Administration of a South
ern STAKEHOLDER, supported by "Solid
South" in the face of the almost solid on
position Of the free States. Who were the
master spirits OF that struggle? Such
men as Clay, Calhoun, Monroe, Grundy.
LoWndes and crawford; while only five
Senators north of the Delaware voted to
sustain it.
In the gloomiesi and most critical days
OF the conflict, New England, who "writes
all the books" was holding a secession
convention, denouncing the war and in
triguing with the emissaries of Great
Britain. As consequences, when England
sent her powerful feet to invest our ports.
she exempted the coast of New England
from the operations of the blockade. When
the success Of the war had established its
popularity in the free States, a Southern
man formulated the financial policy which
extinguished it immense debt in less than
twenty years.